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"Click", said the camera
ISBN: PB: 9783037785508, Lars Muller Publishers, March 2018
42 pp., 24x17 cm, 22 illus.
The beloved children's book "Click", said the camera., first published in 1997, is available again. It features animal portraits by photographer Balthasar Burkhard, who started the series in 1995. The twenty animals meet for the photographer's beaut...
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£18,00
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Still Life Before Still Life
ISBN: HB: 9780300190175, Yale University Press, March 2018
256 pp., 27x22.2 cm, 212 colour illus.
This eloquent and generously illustrated book asserts that artists were fascinated by and extremely skilled at still life significantly earlier than previously thought. Instead of the genre beginning in the early 17th century, noted scholar David Eks...
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£35,00
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Don't Puke on Your Dad A Year in the Life of a New Father
ISBN: PB: 9780992249359, Prestel Publishing, Beatnik, March 2018
288 pp., 16.8x12 cm, illus.
"Don't Puke On Your Dad" by Toby Morris is an illustrated book on fatherhood based on Toby's personal experience with his first son Max. In a market that is flooded with accounts of modern day motherhood, books that engage with contemporary fatherhoo...
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£14,99
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Pretty Gentlemen Macaroni Men and the Eighteenth-Century Fashion World
ISBN: HB: 9780300217469, Yale University Press, March 2018
256 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 150 colour and black&white illus.
The term "macaroni" was once as familiar a label as "punk" or "hipster" is today. In this handsomely illustrated book devoted to notable 18th-century British male fashion, award-winning author and fashion historian Peter McNeil brings together dress,...
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£35,00
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Mirroring China's Past Emperors, Scholars, and Their Bronzes
ISBN: HB: 9780300228632, Yale University Press, March 2018
264 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 305 colour illus., 85 black&white illus.
In ancient China (2000-221 b.c.) elaborate bronze vessels were used for rituals involving cooking, drinking, and serving food. This fascinating book not only examines the cultural practices surrounding these objects in their original context, but it...
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£50,00
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Excellences and Perfections
ISBN: HB: 9783791384184, Prestel Publishing, March 2018
240 pp., 24x19.5 cm, 300 colour illus.
This book presents the fiercely intelligent internet-based performance of artist Amalia Ulman, which she eventually revealed to be a critical artwork about issues of online identity. Amalia Ulman's performance "Excellences & Perfections", which unfo...
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£22,50
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AniMystikAKtivist Between Traditional and the Contemporary in African Art
ISBN: HB: 9780300233230, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, March 2018
128 pp., 26.7x24.1 cm, 250 colour illus.
South African-born Belgian artist Kendell Geers changed his date of birth to MAY 1968 as a performance, effectively giving birth to himself as a work of art. His artistic practice weaves together African animism, European mysticism, and socio-politic...
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£40,00
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How Life Unfolds
ISBN: PB: 9783037785652, Lars Muller Publishers, March 2018
384 pp., 26x21 cm, 511 illus.
"How Life Unfolds" provides an insight into the approach, methods and processes of the popular design studio atelier oi based in La Neuveville, Switzerland. atelier oi pushes the boundaries of architecture, product design and scenography and experime...
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£35,00
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Birds of a Feather Joseph Cornell's Homage to Juan Gris
ISBN: PB: 9781588396273, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 2018
96 pp., 22.9x17.8 cm, 50 colour and black&white illus.
An insightful study of Joseph Cornell's fascination with the Cubist painter Juan Gris, shedding new light on the work of both artists. Joseph Cornell first viewed Cubist painter Juan Gris's "The Man at the Cafe" in October 1953. This visual encounte...
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£18,99
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Electra 1 In These Great Times
ISBN: PB: 9789728909598, Prestel Publishing, Monade, March 2018
181 pp., 27x20 cm, illus.
"In These Great Times" is the topic of the first edition file, published in March 2018. This topic unfolds from the quote of a famous text of the Viennese writer of early XX century, Karl Kraus. This "great times" gathers a number of texts that help...
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£14,00
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